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• JMS of B2B message conversion steps

  Hello
  
  In the newspapers of the IDC:
  
  2008.12.21 to 22:59:10:170: Thread-16: (DEBUG) the number of messages to be processed by JMSMonitor = 1
  2008.12.21 to 22:59:10:171: Thread-16: JMSMonitor.convertJMSMessageToTransport () (DEBUG): message conversion...
  2008.12.21 to 22:59:11:919: Thread-16: JMSMonitor.run () (DEBUG): JMSMonitor goes to sleep
  for 0 seconds...
  2008.12.21 to 22:59:11:921: Thread-16: JMSMonitor.run (DEBUG): wake up.
  
  
  Please can you confirm the following steps occur during the stage, assuming a JMS listener: 2008.12.21 to 22:59:10:171: Thread - 6: JMSMonitor.convertJMSMessageToTransport () (DEBUG): message conversion...
  
  A message is taken from the queue, the message is converted to the B2B format
  the message conversion includes the following steps internally:
  1 convert the format format-B2B JMS
  2 B2B processes this request message
  3. forwards this request to the Trading partner, gets ack
  4 TP gives a respone
  5 B2B gives back an Ack.
  Only after this step is processing the next message
  
  Therefore, if a TP response takes time to come, B2B is not able to take the next message in the JMS queue (in the case of a single listener)
  
  Please can you confirm this?
  
  Thanking you in advance,
  Best regards,
  Suhas.

  No, the step are the following,

  1 converts the JMS in B2B format message
  2. treat and send the message to remote business partner
  3. once the request http/send is completed, it goes back to resume the message.

  HTH.

  Kind regards
  Sinkar

• Cold /Conversion cloning

  Will there be a .iso boot to do a p2v offline for vsphere cold.  I installed vcenter server and the standalone converter, but I do not see a .iso to burn to a cd.  Please provide specific information on where to find this .iso.  I've seen many references to these for previous versions, but I could not download the .iso.

  check http://downloads.vmware.com/d/details/vc40/ZHcqYmRkJSVidGVw

  VMware vCenter Converter BootCD
  File size: 97 MB
  File type: .zip
  MD5SUM: f6320c6d9e4472e259b15c520f36f4bd
  SHA1SUM: ff895709f17b6cda6d10369a9794e3f837dfd164
  

• Message from Network Access Protection missing conversion steps

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  I can reach the HRA through ping and HTTP. I have GPO configuration for my HRA server and I have the GPO configuration for the control of the client.

  Any help would be appreciated.

  Hello

  The question you posted would be better suited to the TechNet community. Please send the query in the link.
  http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/WindowsServer/en-us/home?Forum=winserverNAP

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• Question: With the new stand-alone converter how do you do a cold P2V? (booting from CD)

  With the new stand-alone converter how do you do a cold P2V? (booting from CD)

  Well, I see that cold Conversions are more supported.

• Conversion to Active Directory.

  Hello

  We run 3 x VMWare ESX4, vCentre Server hosts and the converter.

  We also have 2 Active Directory domain controller currently as physical servers outside the virtual machine environment.

  I'm looking forward to use guided codification tool to convert the a DC to a virtual machine - and then let the other like a physical machine.

  Anyone know if I am having trouble with going to the DC out of sync or any terrible things happen if I should try it?  Is there best practice procedures that this kind of thing - or things to aovid?

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• CONVERSION of BITMAP OF ROWID and IFFS

  Hello
  
  A few days ago, I observed the strange behavior of a query that has counted the number of distinct attributes in a single partition of a large table. There is a local bitmap index on the specified column and I assumed that the request would not need to access the table information in the index. Indeed, the query has made an analysis of index full and no access table, but it took more time than I expected (more than 50 seconds in the given case). The sql, followed dbms_sqltune showed me, that most of the work has been associated with the BITMAP ROWID CONVERSION steps and a following GROUP BY of HASH. Then, I changed the query a little and got a much better performance without the BITMAP CONVERSION to ROWID and with a UNIQUE HASH - and operation with the same cost (and the same amount of LIOs). Here's a small suitcase of test 11.2.0.1 showing my remarks (on my Windows PC; "I've seen the effect in a Linux - 11.1.0.7 - data warehouse):
  

  drop table t_partitioned;
  
  create table t_partitioned (
      id  number
    , startdate date
    , col1 number
    , padding varchar2(50)
  )
  partition by range(startdate)
  (
    partition t_partitioned_20120522 values less than (to_date('23.05.2012', 'dd.mm.yyyy'))
  , partition t_partitioned_20120523 values less than (to_date('24.05.2012', 'dd.mm.yyyy'))
  , partition t_partitioned_maxvalue values less than (maxvalue)
  );
  
  insert into t_partitioned
  select rownum id
       , to_date('22.05.2012', 'dd.mm.yyyy') - 1 + trunc(rownum/500000) startdate
       , mod(rownum, 4) col1
       , lpad('*', 50, '*') padding
    from dual
  connect by level <= 1000000;
  
  -- executed several times until the table contained 64M rows, i.e. 32M for each day partition.
  insert into t_partitioned
  select * from t_partitioned;
  
  commit;
  
  create bitmap index t_partitioned_col1_start_bix on t_partitioned(col1, startdate) local;
  
  exec dbms_stats.gather_table_stats(user, 't_partitioned')

  And here are the queries and dbms_sqltune.report_sql_monitor information:
  

  -- slow query
  select /*+ monitor test 1 */ 
         count(distinct col1)
    from t_partitioned 
   where startdate = to_date('22.05.2012', 'dd.mm.yyyy');
  
  -- fast query
  select /*+ monitor test 2 */
         count(*)
    from (select distinct col1
            from t_partitioned
           where startdate = to_date('22.05.2012', 'dd.mm.yyyy'));
  
  -- Test 1
  SQL Monitoring Report
  
  SQL Text
  ------------------------------
  select /*+ monitor test 1 */ count(distinct col1) from t_partitioned where startdate = to_date('22.05.2012', 'dd.mm.yyyy')
  
  Global Information
  ------------------------------
   Status              :  DONE (ALL ROWS)
   Instance ID         :  1
   Session             :  DBADMIN (67:178)
   SQL ID              :  3mxmz941azrgx
   SQL Execution ID    :  16777216
   Execution Started   :  05/22/2012 21:48:43
   First Refresh Time  :  05/22/2012 21:48:43
   Last Refresh Time   :  05/22/2012 21:48:47
   Duration            :  4s
   Module/Action       :  SQL*Plus/-
   Service             :  testdb
   Program             :  sqlplus.exe
   Fetch Calls         :  1
  
  Global Stats
  ================================================================
  | Elapsed |   Cpu   |    IO    | Fetch | Buffer | Read | Read  |
  | Time(s) | Time(s) | Waits(s) | Calls |  Gets  | Reqs | Bytes |
  ================================================================
  |    4.09 |    3.54 |     0.55 |     1 |   5868 |   62 |  46MB |
  ================================================================
  
  SQL Plan Monitoring Details (Plan Hash Value=3761143426)
  ==================================================================================================================================================================================================
  | Id |             Operation              |             Name             |  Rows   | Cost |   Time    | Start  | Execs |   Rows   | Read | Read  |  Mem  | Activity |      Activity Detail       |
  |    |                                    |                              | (Estim) |      | Active(s) | Active |       | (Actual) | Reqs | Bytes | (Max) |   (%)    |        (# samples)         |
  ==================================================================================================================================================================================================
  |  0 | SELECT STATEMENT                   |                              |         |      |         1 |     +4 |     1 |        1 |      |       |       |          |                            |
  |  1 |   SORT AGGREGATE                   |                              |       1 |      |         1 |     +4 |     1 |        1 |      |       |       |          |                            |
  |  2 |    VIEW                            | VW_DAG_0                     |    2602 | 5361 |         1 |     +4 |     1 |        4 |      |       |       |          |                            |
  |  3 |     HASH GROUP BY                  |                              |    2602 | 5361 |         4 |     +1 |     1 |        4 |      |       |  840K |    50.00 | Cpu (2)                    |
  |  4 |      PARTITION RANGE SINGLE        |                              |    2602 | 5360 |         3 |     +2 |     1 |      32M |      |       |       |          |                            |
  |  5 |       BITMAP CONVERSION TO ROWIDS  |                              |    2602 | 5360 |         3 |     +2 |     1 |      32M |      |       |       |    25.00 | Cpu (1)                    |
  |  6 |        BITMAP INDEX FAST FULL SCAN | T_PARTITIONED_COL1_START_BIX |         |      |         3 |     +2 |     1 |     5836 |   62 |  46MB |       |    25.00 | db file scattered read (1) |
  ==================================================================================================================================================================================================
  
  -- Test 2
  SQL Monitoring Report
  
  SQL Text
  ------------------------------
  select /*+ monitor test 2 */ count(*) from (select distinct col1 from t_partitioned where startdate = to_date('22.05.2012', 'dd.mm.yyyy'))
  
  Global Information
  ------------------------------
   Status              :  DONE (ALL ROWS)
   Instance ID         :  1
   Session             :  DBADMIN (67:178)
   SQL ID              :  512z4htdq43cn
   SQL Execution ID    :  16777216
   Execution Started   :  05/22/2012 21:48:49
   First Refresh Time  :  05/22/2012 21:48:49
   Last Refresh Time   :  05/22/2012 21:48:49
   Duration            :  .019299s
   Module/Action       :  SQL*Plus/-
   Service             :  testdb
   Program             :  sqlplus.exe
   Fetch Calls         :  1
  
  Global Stats
  =================================================
  | Elapsed |   Cpu   |  Other   | Fetch | Buffer |
  | Time(s) | Time(s) | Waits(s) | Calls |  Gets  |
  =================================================
  |    0.02 |    0.02 |     0.00 |     1 |   5868 |
  =================================================
  
  SQL Plan Monitoring Details (Plan Hash Value=4286208786)
  =======================================================================================================================================================================
  | Id |             Operation             |             Name             |  Rows   | Cost |   Time    | Start  | Execs |   Rows   |  Mem  | Activity | Activity Detail |
  |    |                                   |                              | (Estim) |      | Active(s) | Active |       | (Actual) | (Max) |   (%)    |   (# samples)   |
  =======================================================================================================================================================================
  |  0 | SELECT STATEMENT                  |                              |         |      |         1 |     +0 |     1 |        1 |       |          |                 |
  |  1 |   SORT AGGREGATE                  |                              |       1 |      |         1 |     +0 |     1 |        1 |       |          |                 |
  |  2 |    VIEW                           |                              |    2602 | 5361 |         1 |     +0 |     1 |        4 |       |          |                 |
  |  3 |     HASH UNIQUE                   |                              |    2602 | 5361 |         1 |     +0 |     1 |        4 |  840K |          |                 |
  |  4 |      PARTITION RANGE SINGLE       |                              |    2602 | 5360 |         1 |     +0 |     1 |     5836 |       |          |                 |
  |  5 |       BITMAP INDEX FAST FULL SCAN | T_PARTITIONED_COL1_START_BIX |    2602 | 5360 |         1 |     +0 |     1 |     5836 |       |          |                 |
  =======================================================================================================================================================================

  The difference is in the little test 4,09 0.02 sec dry. It seems that slow execution must unpack the bitmaps for the separate number - but I do not understand why it is necessary, given that the number of distinct values is not the ROWID (and indeed the conversion seems to be preventable if I look at the quick plan). And to my surprise the simple query is slower.
  
  I also did a trace of cbo (10053) but I don't see a good reason for the difference in behavior here:

  -- fast execution
  **************************
  Query transformations (QT)
  **************************
  CBQT: Validity checks passed for 8kj3uttv3nt4j.
  CSE: Considering common sub-expression elimination in query block SEL$1 (#0)
  
  ...
  
  Final query after transformations:******* UNPARSED QUERY IS *******
  SELECT COUNT(*) "COUNT(*)" FROM  (SELECT DISTINCT "T_PARTITIONED"."COL1" "COL1" FROM "DBADMIN"."T_PARTITIONED" "T_PARTITIONED" WHERE "T_PARTITIONED"."STARTDATE"=TO_DATE(' 2012-05-22 00:00:00', 'syyyy-mm-dd hh24:mi:ss')) "from$_subquery$_001"
  
  
  -- slow execution
  **************************
  Query transformations (QT)
  **************************
  JF: Checking validity of join factorization for query block SEL$1 (#0)
  JF: Bypassed: not a UNION or UNION-ALL query block.
  ST: not valid since star transformation parameter is FALSE
  TE: Checking validity of table expansion for query block SEL$1 (#0)
  TE: Bypassed: No relevant table found.
  CBQT bypassed for query block SEL$1 (#0): no complex view, sub-queries or UNION (ALL) queries.
  CBQT: Validity checks failed for d0471pgnw27nc.
  CSE: Considering common sub-expression elimination in query block SEL$1 (#0)
  
  ...
  
  Final query after transformations:******* UNPARSED QUERY IS *******
  SELECT COUNT("VW_DAG_0"."ITEM_1") "COUNT(DISTINCTCOL1)" FROM  (SELECT "T_PARTITIONED"."COL1" "ITEM_1" FROM "DBADMIN"."T_PARTITIONED" "T_PARTITIONED" WHERE "T_PARTITIONED"."STARTDATE"=TO_DATE(' 2012-05-22 00:00:00', 'syyyy-mm-dd hh24:mi:ss') GROUP BY "T_PARTITIONED"."COL1") "VW_DAG_0"

  So slow execution consider still more possible transformations - but obviously not the one fitting.
  
  The question is: I do not miss a semantic difference between the two queries and is there a good reason why the CBO does not have the transformation of the slow to the fast version?
  
  Concerning
  
  Martin Preiss

  mpreiss wrote:

   ==================================================================================================================================================================================================
  | Id |             Operation              |             Name             |  Rows   | Cost |   Time    | Start  | Execs |   Rows   | Read | Read  |  Mem  | Activity |      Activity Detail       |
  |    |                                    |                              | (Estim) |      | Active(s) | Active |       | (Actual) | Reqs | Bytes | (Max) |   (%)    |        (# samples)         |
  ==================================================================================================================================================================================================
  |  0 | SELECT STATEMENT                   |                              |         |      |         1 |     +4 |     1 |        1 |      |       |       |          |                            |
  |  1 |   SORT AGGREGATE                   |                              |       1 |      |         1 |     +4 |     1 |        1 |      |       |       |          |                            |
  |  2 |    VIEW                            | VW_DAG_0                     |    2602 | 5361 |         1 |     +4 |     1 |        4 |      |       |       |          |                            |
  |  3 |     HASH GROUP BY                  |                              |    2602 | 5361 |         4 |     +1 |     1 |        4 |      |       |  840K |    50.00 | Cpu (2)                    |
  |  4 |      PARTITION RANGE SINGLE        |                              |    2602 | 5360 |         3 |     +2 |     1 |      32M |      |       |       |          |                            |
  |  5 |       BITMAP CONVERSION TO ROWIDS  |                              |    2602 | 5360 |         3 |     +2 |     1 |      32M |      |       |       |    25.00 | Cpu (1)                    |
  |  6 |        BITMAP INDEX FAST FULL SCAN | T_PARTITIONED_COL1_START_BIX |         |      |         3 |     +2 |     1 |     5836 |   62 |  46MB |       |    25.00 | db file scattered read (1) |
  ==================================================================================================================================================================================================
  

  Martin,

  I think it's just one of those things where the code for the optimizer is not uniform in all cases. I first met this anomaly with a query with a subquery IN a few years ago:

  select
       dim.*
  from     dim
  where
       id in (
            select
                 distinct status
            from
                 area_sales
       )
  ;
  

  If the breast to a view query online, but is not converted to a semi-join, so you see the same effect. This request is a little weird (it's a business model of the customer). Here is the list rows in a dimension table (with PK) which lies in the fact (with bitmap index) table.

  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  
  | Id  | Operation                       | Name     | Starts | E-Rows | A-Rows |   A-Time   | Buffers |  OMem |  1Mem | Used-Mem |
  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  |   0 | SELECT STATEMENT                |          |      1 |        |      6 |00:00:00.01 |      29 |       |       |          |
  |*  1 |  HASH JOIN                      |          |      1 |      6 |      6 |00:00:00.01 |      29 |  1594K|  1594K|  865K (0)|
  |   2 |   VIEW                          | VW_NSO_1 |      1 |      6 |      6 |00:00:00.01 |      21 |       |       |          |
  |   3 |    HASH UNIQUE                  |          |      1 |      6 |      6 |00:00:00.01 |      21 |  1595K|  1595K|  715K (0)|
  |   4 |     BITMAP CONVERSION TO ROWIDS |          |      1 |    100K|    100K|00:00:00.01 |      21 |       |       |          |
  |   5 |      BITMAP INDEX FAST FULL SCAN| AS_BI    |      1 |        |     30 |00:00:00.01 |      21 |       |       |          |
  |   6 |   TABLE ACCESS FULL             | DIM      |      1 |      6 |      6 |00:00:00.01 |       8 |       |       |          |
  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  

  The conversion does not occur if you rewrite the manual unnesting query:

  select
       dim.*
  from     (
       select
            distinct status
       from
            area_sales
       )     sttv,I
       dim
  where
       dim.id = sttv.status
  ;
  

  The strange thing is the 10053 trace shows that this manual rewrite is (apparently) exactly the thing that is well optimized.
  In the latest versions of Oracle, plans are lots of volumes and distribution - I saw half a dozen plans different for the same query through three different versions of Oracle.

  (In fact, you can see something similar, many queries with subquery costs where the subquery is involved in-the cost of the query automatically to the often seems to be slightly higher than the cost of the subquery manually to the when the manual and automatic plans are the same (otherwise)).

  This really expected to have nothing to do with NULL values, moreover, because the bitmap indexes contain a string of NULL values.

  Concerning
  Jonathan Lewis

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  The plan is first to R12.1.1, then apply the ORS R12.1.3. For the first iteration, the main steps would be:
  
  1 clone environment to new, running Solaris 10 (64-bit).
  2. run the preparatory steps.
  3 upgrade RDBMS 10.2.0.4 (64-bit), including OLAP conversion steps.
  4. complete the R12.1.1 upgrade.
  5. apply R12.1.3. ORS
  6 update the steps (application of patches, etc.).
  
  We would like to upgrade to the RDBMS 11 GR 2, but we do not know if our schedule will allow us to do so.
  
  So, for now, the target environment would be: a single node 10.2.0.4/R12.1.3 in Solaris 10 (64-bit).
  
  Now, what worries me is that, from what I've seen on MOS, R12.1.3 is NOT certified with 10.2.0.4 on Solaris SPARC 64-bit RDBMS. Intriguing, since R12.1.1 IS certified with this same combination of RDBMS/OS. I have not read anywhere that 10.2.0.4 is not supported for R12.1.3 (at least it does not say the README file).
  
  Questions (just to be sure):
  -It will be possible during the downtime R12, to upgrade first to 10.2.0.4 then to 11 g and then perform the upgrade R12, all the way to R12.1.3?
  -J' read that 10.2.0.5 is NOT certified with 11.5.9.x, but this being an upgrade of R12, could pass us to this version, instead of 10.2.0.4 RDBMS? 10.2.0.5 IS certified at both R12.1.1 and R12.1.3 on SPARC Solaris 64-bit.
  
  If you have any suggetions/comments on our upgrade steps, please share with me.
  
  Thank you!
  
  Hiroshi Komatsu
  
  Published by: user11971612 on January 25, 2013 08:49

  user11971612 wrote:
  Hi Hussein, have ideas on why 12.1.3/10.2.0.4/Solaris 10 is not a combination certified, even if 12.1.1/10.2.0.4/Solaris 10 is? I can't find any information on its subject.

  I have no idea why - it's something that can respond to Oracle support (or they can't know what they're going to just clarify that it is not certified).

  Another thing: this customer has no packs applied ATG families, consider you + 11i. ATG. + H.RUP.7 would have a positive impact on the upgrade?

  It does not matter. I spend (on 6 of ORS ATG) 11i to R12 with no problems.

  Thank you
  Hussein

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  Thank you!

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  André